American Naturalist

Papers
(The median citation count of American Naturalist is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social Learning of Innovations in Dynamic Predator-Prey Systems161
Social Environment Influences the Temporal Dynamics of Sneak-Spawning in a Fish with Alternative Reproductive Tactics45
Individual Dietary Specialization in a Generalist Bee Varies across Populations but Has No Effect on the Richness of Associated Microbial Communities35
Nestling Begging Calls Resemble Maternal Vocal Signatures When Mothers Call Slowly to Embryos31
Host Controls of Within-Host Disease Dynamics: Insight from an Invertebrate System31
Resource Competition and Host Feedbacks Underlie Regime Shifts in Gut Microbiota27
Resident-Disperser Differences and Genetic Variability Affect Communities in Microcosms26
Dimensionality and Modularity of Adaptive Variation: Divergence in Threespine Stickleback from Diverse Environments25
Larval and Adult Traits Coevolve in Response to Asymmetric Coastal Currents to Shape Marine Dispersal Kernels25
Large Mammals Have More Powerful Antibacterial Defenses Than Expected from Their Metabolic Rates24
Pollinator-Mediated Indirect Effects on Plant Fecundity Revealed by Network Indices23
Editorial Expression of Concern23
Front and Back Matter22
Predictable and Divergent Change in the Multivariate P Matrix during Parallel Adaptation22
The Context-Dependent Effects of Host Competence, Competition, and Pathogen Transmission Mode on Disease Prevalence22
Differences in Thermal Tolerance between Parental Species Could Fuel Thermal Adaptation in Hybrid Wood Ants22
Understanding the Role of Naive Learners in Cultural Change20
The Effect of the Recombination Rate between Adaptive Loci on the Capacity of a Population to Expand Its Range20
Avian Predators Avoid Attacking Fly-Mimicking Beetles: A Field Experiment on Evasive Mimicry Using Artificial Prey20
Five Decades of Data Yield No Support for Adaptive Biasing of Offspring Sex Ratio in Wild Baboons (Papio cynocephalus)19
Low Heritability but Significant Early Environmental Effects on Resting Metabolic Rate in a Wild Passerine19
Front and Back Matter19
Resurrecting Historical Observations to Characterize Species-Specific Nesting Traits of Bumblebees18
Front and Back Matter18
Infrequent Long-Range Dispersal and Evolution of a Top Terrestrial Arthropod Predator in the Sub-Antarctic18
(Epi)mutation Rates and the Evolution of Composite Trait Architectures17
Replicated Functional Evolution in Cichlid Adaptive Radiations17
More or Less? The Effect of Symbiont Density in Protective Mutualisms17
Effects of Phylogenetic Relatedness on Fluctuation-Dependent and Fluctuation-Independent Coexistence Mechanisms in Multispecies Communities17
Acquired Phototrophy as an Evolutionary Path to Mixotrophy17
Strength of Sexual Selection and Sex Roles Vary between Social Groups in a Coral Reef Cardinalfish17
Front and Back Matter16
Transforming Restoration Science: Multiple Knowledges and Community Research Cogeneration in the Klamath and Duwamish Rivers16
Predator Group Composition Indirectly Influences Food Web Dynamics through Predator Growth Rates16
Front and Back Matter16
An Evolutionary and Ecological Community Model for Distribution of Phenotypes and Abundances among Competing Species15
Front and Back Matter15
Spatially Explicit Habitat Selection: Testing Contagion and the Ideal Free Distribution with Culex Mosquitoes15
Front and Back Matter15
Demography Predicts Genetic Effective Size in a Desert Stream Fish Community15
Variation in Avian Predation Pressure as a Driver for the Diversification of Periodical Cicada Broods15
Estimating Density Dependence, Environmental Variance, and Long-Term Selection on a Stage-Structured Life History15
Extra Nestlings That Are Condemned to Die Increase Reproductive Success in Hoopoes14
When and Where We Can Expect to See Early Warning Signals in Multispecies Systems Approaching Tipping Points: Insights from Theory14
Secretary’s Report, 202214
How Female-Female Competition Affects Male-Male Competition: Insights into Postcopulatory Sexual Selection from Socially Polyandrous Species14
Coupled Oscillators in an Agroecosystem: Integrating Direct and Indirect Effects14
Seasonality and the Coexistence of Pathogen Strains14
Front and Back Matter14
Resource Availability Affects Seasonal Trajectories of Population-Level Learning14
Pyrophilic Plants Respond to Postfire Soil Conditions in a Frequently Burned Longleaf Pine Savanna14
Civil War Is Associated with Longer Escape Distances among Sri Lankan Birds13
Fluctuation-Dependent Coexistence of Stage-Structured Species13
Assortative Mating in an Ecological Context: Effects of Mate Choice Errors and Relative Species Abundance on the Frequency and Asymmetry of Hybridization13
Evolutionary and Ecological Processes Underlying Geographic Variation in Innate Bird Songs13
The Evolution of Using Shed Snake Skin in Bird Nests13
Vertical Niche Partitioning and the Performance of Mixotrophic Generalists against Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Specialists under Contrasting Light-Nutrient Supply Regimes13
Georgii F. Gause’s The Struggle for Existence and the Integration of Natural History and Mathematical Models13
Front and Back Matter13
Virulent Disease Epidemics Can Increase Host Density by Depressing Foraging of Hosts12
Synchrony and Perturbation Transmission in Trophic Metacommunities12
Fitness Costs of Female Competition Linked to Resource Defense and Relatedness of Competitors12
The Evolution of Social Dominance through Reinforcement Learning12
Disentangling Verbal Arguments: Intralocus Sexual Conflict in Haplodiploids12
Density-Dependent Selection during Range Expansion Affects Expansion Load in Life History Traits12
Niche Specificity, Polygeny, and Pleiotropy in Herbivorous Insects12
Fish, People, and Systems of Power: Understanding and Disrupting Feedback between Colonialism and Fisheries Science12
Coevolution of Patch Selection in Stochastic Environments12
Within-Host Viral Growth and Immune Response Rates Predict Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Transmission Dynamics for African Buffalo11
Genetic Variation in Male Aggression Is Influenced by Genotype of Prior Social Partners in Drosophila melanogaster11
How Dispersal Evolution and Local Adaptation Affect the Range Dynamics of Species Lagging Behind Climate Change11
Long-Term Decrease in Coloration: A Consequence of Climate Change?11
Variation in Thermal Sensitivity of Diapause Development among Individuals and over Time Predicts Life History Timing in a Univoltine Insect11
Is Evolution in Response to Extreme Events Good for Population Persistence?11
Soilscapes of Mortality Risk Suggest a Goldilocks Effect for Overwintering Ectotherms11
The Effects of Foraging Ecology and Allometry on Avian Skull Shape Vary across Levels of Phylogeny11
Identifying “Useful” Fitness Models: Balancing the Benefits of Added Complexity with Realistic Data Requirements in Models of Individual Plant Fitness11
Thermal Plasticity in Behavioral Traits Mediates Mating and Reproductive Dynamics in an Ectotherm10
Individual Quality Drives Life History Variation in a Long-Lived Marine Predator10
Diversity-Dependent Diversification in the History of Marine Animals10
Learning from Our Study Organisms about Sexual Selection: Lessons from the Ocellated Wrasse10
Dorsal and Ventral Plumage Coloration Evolve as Distinct Modules with Different Environmental Correlations10
Treasurer’s Report, 202310
The Effect of Mating Complexity on Gene Drive Dynamics10
Context-Dependent Reproductive Isolation: Host Plant Variability Drives Fitness of Hybrid Herbivores10
Front and Back Matter10
Density-by-Diet Interactions during Larval Development Shape Adult Life History Trait Expression and Fitness in a Polyphagous Fly10
Colonial Legacies Influence Biodiversity Lessons: How Past Trade Routes and Power Dynamics Shape Present-Day Scientific Research and Professional Opportunities for Caribbean Scientists10
Filial Cannibalism Leads to Chronic Nest Failure of Eastern Hellbender Salamanders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)9
Sporadic Events Have a Greater Influence on the Dynamics of Small, Isolated Populations Than Density Dependence and Environmental Conditions9
The Difficulty of Predicting Evolutionary Change in Response to Novel Ecological Interactions: A Field Experiment with Anolis Lizards9
Using Computational Simulations to Model Deleterious Variation and Genetic Load in Natural Populations9
Niche Packing and Local Coexistence in a Megadiverse Guild of Frugivorous Birds Are Mediated by Fruit Dependence and Shifts in Interaction Frequencies9
Abiotic Niche Divergence of Hybrid Species from Their Progenitors9
Inverse Lansing Effect: Maternal Age and Provisioning Affecting Daughters’ Longevity and Male Offspring Production9
A Spatial Signal of Niche Differentiation in Tropical Forests9
Seasonal Body Size Plasticity and the Generality of Dehnel’s Phenomenon in Sorex Shrews9
The Role of Indirect Effects in Coevolution along the Mutualism-Antagonism Continuum9
Differential Survival and Background Selection in Cryptic Trunk-Dwelling Arthropods in Fire-Prone Environments9
What Ecological Factors Favor Parthenogenesis over Sexual Reproduction? A Study on the Facultatively Parthenogenetic Mayfly Alainites muticus in Natural Populations9
The Evolution of Competitive Ability9
Food web structure mediates positive and negative effects of diversity on ecosystem functioning in a large floodplain river9
Litter, Plant Competition, and Ecosystem Dynamics: A Theoretical Perspective9
Front and Back Matter8
Front and Back Matter8
The Demographic Costs of Sexually Antagonistic Selection in Partially Selfing Populations8
Marine Cleaning Mutualism Defies Standard Logic of Supply and Demand8
The Relationship between Vector Species Richness and the Risk of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases8
Performative Manipulation of the Environment by Displaying Albert’s Lyrebirds8
Carnivore Niche Partitioning in a Human Landscape8
Editorial: Introducing a new article type for The American Naturalist8
Selection and Admixture in a Polytypic Aposematic Frog8
Light Environment Interacts with Visual Displays in a Species-Specific Manner in Multimodal-Signaling Wolf Spiders8
Accelerated Brain Shape Evolution Is Associated with Rapid Diversification in an Avian Radiation8
Monitoring Demography of Resurrected Populations of Locally Extinct and Extant Species to Investigate Drivers of Species Loss8
“Resistance Is Futile”: Weaker Selection for Resistance by Abundant Parasites Increases Prevalence and Depresses Host Density8
Multigenerational Fitness Effects of Natural Immigration Indicate Strong Heterosis and Epistatic Breakdown in a Wild Bird Population8
Evolution of Social Organization: Phylogenetic Analyses of Ecology and Sexual Selection in Weavers8
2024 American Society of Naturalists Awards8
Predicting and Controlling Spillover in Multispecies Disease Transmission Networks: Steady-State Analysis8
Optimal Seed Size under Mixed Mating Systems When Predispersal and Postdispersal Inbreeding Depression Is Decoupled8
Broken Ring Speciation in California Mygalomorph Spiders (Nemesiidae,Calisoga)8
In Memoriam8
Biological Links between Personality and Plasticity: Testing Some Alternative Hypotheses8
Unprecedented Biting Performance in Herbivorous Fish: How the Complex Biting System of Pomacentridae Circumvents Performance Trade-Offs8
Acceptable Loss: Fitness Consequences of Salinity-Induced Cell Death in a Halotolerant Microalga8
The Origin of Asexual Brine Shrimps8
Better to Divorce than Be Widowed: The Role of Mortality and Environmental Heterogeneity in the Evolution of Divorce8
Repeated Genetic and Adaptive Phenotypic Divergence across Tidal Elevation in a Foundation Plant Species8
Treasurer’s Report, 20218
Shifts in Mutation Bias Promote Mutators by Altering the Distribution of Fitness Effects8
Allee effects, colonization, and extinction: the surprising benefits of demographic stochasticity7
Effects of Community Richness and Competitive Asymmetry on Protozoa Evolution in Sarracenia purpurea Leaves7
Diadromy Drives Elevated Rates of Trait Evolution and Ecomorphological Convergence in Clupeiformes (Herring, Shad, and Anchovies)7
Lifetime Fitness through Female and Male Function: Influences of Genetically Effective Population Size and Density7
Metabolic Rate Diversity Shapes Group Performance in Honeybees7
Competitive Displacement and Agonistic Character Displacement, or the Ghost of Interference Competition7
Adaptive Evolution Can Both Prevent Ecosystem Collapse and Delay Ecosystem Recovery7
Temperature Sensitivity of Fitness Components across Life Cycles Drives Insect Responses to Climate Change7
Whole-Genome Sequencing Reveals That Regulatory and Low Pleiotropy Variants Underlie Local Adaptation to Environmental Variability in Purple Sea Urchins7
Strolling through a Century: Replicating Historical Bird Surveys to Explore 100 Years of Change in an Urban Bird Community7
Multimorph Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations7
Secondary Sexual Trait Melanization in “Black” Scavenger Flies: Nutritional Plasticity and Its Evolution7
Evolution of Plant Niche Construction Traits in Biogeomorphic Landscapes7
Quantitative Characteristics of Stabilizing and Equalizing Mechanisms7
Front and Back Matter7
Bending the course of evolution: how mutualistic interactions affect macroevolutionary dynamics of diversification in mimetic Ithomiini butterflies7
Global Conservation Potential in Coral Reef Halos: Consistency over Space, Time, and Ecosystems Worldwide7
Polyandry as a Male Strategy? A Game between Aggressive and Tolerant Males, Arbitrated by Females7
Emission Rates of Species-Specific Volatiles Vary across Communities ofClarkiaSpecies: Evidence for Multimodal Character Displacement7
Front and Back Matter7
A female-specific color signal? Black-mottled bills indicate breeding in female common waxbills7
A Theoretical Framework for Trait-Based Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics: Population Structure, Intraspecific Variation, and Community Assembly7
Assembly, Persistence, and Disassembly Dynamics of Quaternary Caribbean Frugivore Communities6
Scaling of Activity Space in Marine Organisms across Latitudinal Gradients6
Trait-Fitness Associations via Fecundity and Competition in a Two-Million-Year-Long Fossil Record6
Multituberculate Mammals Show Evidence of a Life History Strategy Similar to That of Placentals, Not Marsupials6
What’s Gender Got to Do with It? Dismantling the Human Hierarchies in Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Toxicology for Scientific and Social Progress6
The Contribution of Mutation to Variation in Temperature-Dependent Sprint Speed in Zebrafish,Danio rerio6
Ecological Filtering and Exaptation in the Evolution of Marine Snakes6
Resource Variation Within and Between Patches: Where Exploitation Competition, Local Adaptation, and Kin Selection Meet6
Two-Sex Demography, Sexual Niche Differentiation, and the Geographic Range Limits of Texas Bluegrass (Poa arachnifera)6
Evolutionary Epidemiology Consequences of Trait-Dependent Control of Heterogeneous Parasites6
Seasonal Alternation of Putative Camouflage Wing Morphs of the American Snout Butterfly (Libytheana carinenta)6
Comparing the Predicted versus Realized Rate of Adaptation of Chamaecrista fasciculata to Climate Change6
The Joint Evolution of Animal Movement and Competition Strategies6
Dynamic Changes in Begging Signal Short-Term Information on Hunger and Need6
Dispersal Alters the Nature and Scope of Sexually Antagonistic Variation6
Neotropical Birds Respond Innately to Unfamiliar Acoustic Signals6
Freshwater Habitats Promote Rapid Rates of Phenotypic Evolution in Sculpin Fishes (Perciformes: Cottoidea)6
The Evolution of Resource Provisioning in Pollination Mutualisms6
Repeated Divergence in Opsin Gene Expression Mirrors Photic Habitat Changes in Rapidly Evolving Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes6
Plumage Balances Camouflage and Thermoregulation in Horned Larks (Eremophila alpestris)6
Host Developmental Stage Effects on Parasite Resistance and Tolerance6
Dynamic Trait Distribution as a Source for Shifts in Interaction Strength and Population Density6
Time and Chance: Using Age Partitioning to Understand How Luck Drives Variation in Reproductive Success6
Natural Selection and the Evolution of Asynchronous Aging5
Fluctuations in Density-Dependent Selection Drive the Evolution of a Pace-of-Life Syndrome Within and Between Populations5
Spatiotemporal Variation in Hatching Success and Nestling Sex Ratios Track Rapid Movement of a Songbird Hybrid Zone5
Male Adaptive Plasticity Can Explain the Evolution of Sexual Perception Costs5
Beyond size dimorphism: the past, present, and future of Rensch's rule5
Evolutionary Impact of Size-Selective Harvesting on Shoaling Behavior: Individual-Level Mechanisms and Possible Consequences for Natural and Fishing Mortality5
Opposing Patterns of Altitude-Driven Pollinator Turnover in the Tropical and Temperate Americas5
Disentangling Mechanical and Sensory Modules in the Radiation of Noctilionoid Bats5
The Genetic Consequences of Range Expansion and Its Influence on Diploidization in Polyploids5
Gut Microbiota Uniqueness Is Associated with Lake Size, a Proxy for Diet Diversity, in Stickleback Fish5
Metabolic Plasticity Shapes Microbial Communities across a Temperature Gradient5
Demystifying Fundamental Theories in Ecology5
Higher Mortality Is Not a Universal Cost of Dispersal: A Case Study in African Wild Dogs5
Adaptation to a Viscous Snowball Earth Ocean as a Path to Complex Multicellularity5
Can You Trust Who You See? The Evolution of Socially Cued Anticipatory Plasticity5
Colonization Dynamics Explain the Decoupling of Species Richness and Morphological Disparity in Syngnatharian Fishes across Oceans5
It’s about Her: Male Within-Season Movements Are Related to Mate Searching in a Songbird5
Periodic Environmental Disturbance Drives Repeated Ecomorphological Diversification in an Adaptive Radiation of Antarctic Fishes5
How to Model Optimal Group Size in Social Carnivores5
Effects of Plasticity on Elevational Range Size and Species Richness5
The Effect of Brief or Prolonged Bouts of Winning or Losing Male-Male Contests on Plasticity in Sexually Selected Traits5
Poles apart: the structure and composition of the bird community in bamboo in the Eastern Himalaya5
Do Mixed-Species Groups Travel as One? An Investigation on Large African Herbivores Monitored Using Animal-Borne Video Collars5
Unraveling Adaptive Evolutionary Divergence at Microgeographic Scales5
Who Keeps the House after Divorcing? Partner and Nest Fidelity in the Long-Lived Alpine Swift5
Safety in Numbers: How Color Morph Frequency Affects Predation Risk in an Aposematic Moth5
Species Interactions Limit the Predictability of Community Responses to Environmental Change5
Dynamics of Mixed-Ploidy Populations under Demographic and Environmental Stochasticities5
Nature, Data, and Power: How Hegemonies Shaped This Special Section5
Behavioral Strategies and the Spatial Pattern Formation of Nesting5
Coevolutionary Arms Races and the Conditions for the Maintenance of Mutualism5
The Allometry of Sound Frequency Bandwidth in Songbirds5
Eavesdropping Micropredators as Dynamic Limiters of Sexual Signal Elaboration and Intrasexual Competition5
Hybridization Outcomes Have Strong Genomic and Environmental Contingencies5
Genetic Architecture, Spatial Heterogeneity, and the Arms Race between Newts and Snakes: Exploring Coevolution with Simulations5
Extreme High-Elevation Mammal Surveys Reveal Unexpectedly High Upper Range Limits of Andean Mice5
Brood Parasites That Care: Alternative Nesting Tactics in a Subsocial Wasp5
Wasted Efforts Impair Random Search Efficiency and Reduce Choosiness in Mate-Pairing Termites5
Parameter Sensitivity of Transient Community Dynamics4
Intergenerational Effects of Early-Life Starvation on Life History, Consumption, and Transcriptome of a Holometabolous Insect4
Rapid Evolution of Resistance and Tolerance Leads to Variable Host Recoveries following Disease-Induced Declines4
Intermittent Search, Not Strict Lévy Flight, Evolves under Relaxed Foraging Distribution Constraints4
Front and Back Matter4
How Neanderthals Became White: The Introgression of Race into Contemporary Human Evolutionary Genetics4
Exploring Conditions That Strengthen or Weaken the Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Phenological Synchrony4
An Empiricist’s Guide to Using Ecological Theory4
Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities4
Epigenetic Potential and DNA Methylation in an Ongoing House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Range Expansion4
The Mismatch between Range and Niche Limits due to Source-Sink Dynamics Can Be Greater than Species Mean Dispersal Distance4
Trait-Based Paleontological Niche Prediction Recovers Extinct Ecological Breadth of the Earliest Specialized Ant Predators4
Environmentally Associated Variation in Dispersal Distance Affects Inbreeding Risk in a Stream Salamander4
Female Preferences for More Elaborate Signals Are an Emergent Outcome of Male Chorusing Interactions in Túngara Frogs4
Eusociality and the Evolution of Aging in Superorganisms4
Correction4
Unequal Reproduction Early in a Social Transition: Insights from Invasive Wasps4
Front and Back Matter4
Dog Life Spans and the Evolution of Aging4
Anisogamy Does Not Always Promote the Evolution of Mating Competition Traits in Males4
Partial Migration, Oversummering, and Intermittent Breeding by Shorebirds4
An Elevational Phylogeographic Diversity Gradient in Neotropical Birds Is Decoupled from Speciation Rates4
Amphibian Speciation Rates Support a General Role of Mountains as Biodiversity Pumps4
Front and Back Matter4
Evolutionary Determinants of Nonseasonal Breeding in Wild Chacma Baboons4
Natural Selection on Adults Has Trait-Dependent Consequences for Juvenile Evolution in Dragonflies4
An Evolutionary Game Model of Sex-Dependent Antipredator Signaling4
2022 American Society of Naturalists Awards4
Maternal and Paternal Age Effects on Male Antler Flies: A Field Experiment4
Stochasticity Leads to Coexistence of Generalists and Specialists in Assembling Mutualistic Communities4
Front and Back Matter4
A Life History Perspective on the Evolutionary Interplay of Sex Ratios and Parental Sex Roles4
Landscape Structure Affects Metapopulation-Scale Tipping Points4
Using Metabolic Theory to Describe Temperature and Thermal Acclimation Effects on Parasitic Infection4
Front and Back Matter4
Effects of Warming on Intraguild Predator Communities with Ontogenetic Diet Shifts4
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